DIARY NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76-00183R000200120021-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2002
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: December 20, 1957
• Content Type: NOTES

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DIAR.Y NOTES
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and would be delivered to Andy Goodpaster at the White House today. He did not know
how the White House would decide to handle the distribution or other aspects of the re-
port but agreed to let me know when he had any further information. I advised Mr.
Dulles of this conversation at the Deputies' Meeting.
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2. Matt Baird informed me that he and had had a lon talk with th
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people at Brookings institute who said that they were unwilling to make any commitment
to give this Agency a quota in their program. However, he thought that they would prob-
ably take for the next course.
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the Nash office our OCI Weekly and I subsequently requested Ting Sheldon to take care
of this.
3. During our conversation requested that we discontinue sendin
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4. The Director conducted a meeting in his office to discuss 15
November 1957 paper on "The Stimulation of Innovation." I got the distinct impression
from the way he ran the meeting that he had already made up his mind to do this re-
gardless of what anyone present might have said. However, it was quite clear that
25X1 A9A Frank Wisner and ad serious reservations about how the administration
of the Technical Services Staff would go under such a setup, and it seemed to me that
Dick at least would have preferred to make a clean split between those parts of TSS
devoted to research and development and those devoted to the day-to-day support to
clandestine operations. It was generally agreed that such a split might be possible but
that it should not be undertaken at this time. Frank and Dick undertook to talk to
25X1 A9A I I about the whole matter and reserved final comment until this had been
done. (In this connection, the Director seemed to think that had slowed
down quite a bit and probably should retire in about a year.) 25X1A9
Insofar as the DD/S area was concerned I advised the Director that while I
thought this would work I was interested in three points:
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a. First, the paper seemed to emphasize that the SA/PD would
have real authority to act within his acknowledged field without much
coordination. I said that I thought coordination was going to be abso -
lutely essential since the organizational arrangement was so untidy
and the proposed authority which would be fixed in the SA/PD was so
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Pont.
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b. Second, with regard to the organization I advised the group
that I thought it was very messy but that I felt it could work with 0
25X1 A9A I emphasized, however, that I was not sure it could work with
an Individual such as
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c. Third, and most important, I spoke to paragraph. 5. f. of the
paper having to do with direct contracting, by TSS _ T ca;t1 chat ar fl,o
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that in such instances he should consult with DD/S before making 1,
that we do otherwise, (I excepted Project MKULTRA through which
TSS has authority to spend up to ten per cent of its R&D budget out-
side of the normal contracting procedures.) I then stated that I
thought that when it was necessary to use other than the central con-
tracting facilities the burden of proof should be upon the SA/PD and
ieve we should utilize the central contracting authority in the Office
of Logistics in all cases unless the sensitivity of a project demanded
these exceptions. The Director agreed with this concept. 5X1AjA
developer duri.n.g the research phases. This was accepted by every-
one but I emphasized that I thought the central contracting people
could service him in the same way that his own contractors could. I
pointed out that his own contractors had been supplied by the central
contracting people and that I saw no grounds for alleging incompe-
tence; in fact, if the central contracting people couldn't service him
equally as well then there was something wrong with our own organi-
zation. In any case, it was my clear understanding that the Director
agreed completely with my proposal.
I1.111y110.liGGU u1C,.iiiyvrU:nue or closeness between the user of
equipment and its developer and the feedback of information from the
25X1A9A The meeting ended with the understanding that Frank Wisner ands
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would have further discussions with their own people, after which they wo get to-
gether with and draft a clear-cut statement of Dick's functions for publica-
tion, The Director had stated initially that he wanted to put this into effect on 1 January,
b
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ut at Frank Wisner
s request agreed to postpone the date.
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